11 Facts About Pablo Amorsolo

Pablo Amorsolo was the younger brother of the Philippine National Artist Fernando Amorsolo.

Pablo Amorsolo y Cueto was born in Daet, Camarines Norte to husband and wife Pedro Amorsolo, a book keeper, and Bonifacia Cueto y Velez.

Pablo Amorsolo became an apprentice-painter under the guidance of his uncle, Fabian de la Rosa, an expert painter.

Pablo Amorsolo later graduated from the School of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines in 1924.

Pablo Amorsolo taught painting until the arrival of the Second World War.

Pablo Amorsolo was an enthusiast of both classical and modern-day forms of art.

Pablo Amorsolo became one of the causes for the rise of the so-called genre art in the Philippines, because he weaved, through his artistic brush strokes, a wide variety of images that show native and social scenes and scenarios.

Pablo Amorsolo was a known master of portrait paintings who had the ability to give life to any individual subject.

Pablo Amorsolo painted people from different levels of society and from varied age brackets, where he was able to present his ability to understand the characteristics and personalities of his human subjects.

Pablo Amorsolo created works that portray themes related to Philippine history.

Unfortunately, most of Pablo Amorsolo's paintings were destroyed by a fire that occurred in 1945.